18. lacma

Easter weekend we were all set up to visit my home, Tammy and I had already made plans for the trip, our Saturday was filled.  Then of course Sunday sure to be busy too.

Anyway, so Saturday the plan was to go and see LACMA and then visit Diddy Reise for some delicious make-it-yourself ice cream sandwiches.  We left around noon-time after lunch and drove the half hour through LA to reach the museum, on the way we got to see all the different parts of the city from quite ghetto to upper class.  Also, witnessed a random accident (everyone was fine), quite an exciting drive there.  Upon arrival, we road the “high tech” elevator, as the old ladies called it when they couldn’t find the button, to the museum.

As you may know, outside the museum is a whole bunch of light posts of different heights that are all lined up in rows.  Following convention, we took our pictures hidden among the lights, too bad they weren’t on.  From there, we struggled to find the entrance but stumbled upon it and took the escalator way up where you could see the Hollywood sign.  Upon entering they checked our tickets and we wandered over to the first exhibit.

The first exhibit was quite confusing, wasn’t the best starting point.  It was all Germany things during World War II but everything was written in German.  A couple pictures were interesting but we were mostly just lost.  So we moved on to the next exhibit, which was much more exciting.  This one made up all the crazy art, to put it simply.  There was a bunch of Andy Warhol paintings, murals, random objects that looked like they couldn’t exist, a huge balloon dog (was actually metal), and a big sculpture of Michael Jackson and his monkey…this was totally the stuff we came to the museum for.  Although we wanted to, we didn’t take pictures because we thought we weren’t supposed to :/ turns out we could have.

We went down and explored a different floor, we stepped out of the elevator and on all we saw was a big piece of metal in the next room.  We walked in, and this exhibit was literally a huge piece of metal that took up the room and kind of mimicked a ribbon.  We walked around the metal and inside the little rooms and tunnels it created, it was almost like a house, Tammy and I started picking out which rooms would be ours.  After that, we walked to the exhibit next to it and it was the same thing, the big metal took up the whole room, but this time it was like inverted to the last one.  Once again, we walked all the way around it, amazed by its complexity even though it was just metal.

This all was just in the first building of the museum.  We moved on to the next couple buildings.  These buildings contained exhibits of all magnitudes.  One room was devoted to Robin Rhode who painted at different steps of an action and combined them to make a video (see above).  We stayed there for a while watching the art, we found it quite interesting. We continued along and saw the paintings and sculptures, all quite intriguing, there was even some from Picasso!

As luck would have it, with all our wandering about inside the museum we even ended up in a closed exhibit.  After that mishap though, we got to see the Japanese art section.  I set about playing with the lights that turned on to light up the exhibit while Tammy was quickly enticed by the structure of the place.  The inside was many levels but none of them lined up, some pretty awesome architecture.  After this though, the trip to the museum was over.  It was definitely worth the trip and the day devoted to it.

With this finished we looked forward to a visit to Diddy Reise…it didn’t happen.  We drove to it and we found a line that was all the way down the block, we decided it could wait.  But you can look forward to it in a future post ;]

Despite the lack of ice cream sandwiches in our stomaches, we can surely say this trip was a success.  Was definitely one of the more interesting museums we had visited, may have to go back sometime soon.